NHS England has announced a national expectation that all non-specialist acute trusts establish a patient portal in 2023/24, a letter to regional directors notes. NHS England’s chief operating officer, Sir David Sloman, and national director for digital channels, Joe Harrison, have sent a letter to NHS directors to confirm additional investment […]
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NHS Grampian launches innovation initiative
NHS Grampian and InnoScot Health have launched an initiative to encourage innovative ideas from staff. Through an innovation competition for NHS Grampian staff, the health board aims to inspire its workforce to submit their ideas to improve patient care. The competition hopes to “stimulate innovative thinking and problem solving while laying a platform […]
Service design, public engagement and the necessary components for digitisation
The range of ways in which technology can be used to support and improve health and social care is vast. From artificial intelligence hitting the news to the efforts around integrating NHS trusts and systems, there’s an awful lot happening in the health tech community. Here, we’ll be narrowing it […]
News in brief: digital prehabilitation service, data quality team recruitment in Doncaster, remote monitoring for cancer patients and more
As usual, over the past days there have been many exciting new stories in the health tech community. In this article, we explore some of the main stories from across the country that caught our attention. Digital prehabilitation for head and neck cancer patients A new pilot project offering digital prehabilitation […]
Researchers develop speech analysis app to diagnose depression
Specialists from Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) and Semmelweis University are developing an app based on speech analysis, designed to help diagnose depression. The AI-based technology is hoped to speed up screening for the disorder, and is currently functional, however it requires further testing before launching the developers […]
Diagnostic imaging company raises over £9 million
Scan.com, a healthcare referral and digital platform for booking and receiving medical scan results, has raised over £9 million in Series A funding. The funding is said to facilitate new product development for UK insurance pathways and to scale-up the company’s operations to five additional US states. Based in London and […]
Cambridge Hospitals trials device to improve movement for Parkinson’s disease inpatients
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS FT has launched a pilot of a medical device hoped to support Parkinson’s disease inpatients in significantly improving their movement. The body-worn device developed in Cambridge will now be offered to Parkinson’s disease inpatients at the trust. Called the CUE1, the device is commonly worn on […]
Join us on 19 April for HTN Now: live webinars and research on a range of health tech topics
Join us this Wednesday, 19 April, for a day of live webinars and research on a variety of digital health topics, including remote monitoring, patient flow, records management and behavioural change solutions. At 9am, we hear from Dr Gemma Donovan of Generated Health and Dr Sabine Van Der Veer from […]
Eight guiding principles for responsible development of AI
A perspective article entitled ‘Guiding principles for the responsible development of artificial intelligence tools for healthcare’ has been published in Nature journal, with the intention of expanding guiding AI principles to assist it in “fixing deeply engrained and too often overlooked challenges in healthcare.” The researchers share eight non-exhaustive principles […]
Innovation key to improving services and reducing waiting lists, 90% of NHS Scotland staff say
InnoScot Health has published findings from a recent survey highlighting how 90 percent of staff agree that “innovation must be at the heart of improving NHS Scotland services and helping to tackle pandemic backlogs”. The research study asked 602 NHS staff between October and November 2022 a series of questions […]
